Yesterday and today Buck and I were at work copying orders
into the company order book. Today they discovered, in Logan's division, a girl*
who had served eighteen months as a private soldier. They took her to the
preacher's to get her a dress and will send her north. A good many of our boys
saw her.
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* Blog Editor’s Note: Fanny (also reported as Annie) Wilson, a woman from New Jersey who enlisted disguised as a man and served approximately eighteen months in the Union army before being discovered during the Vicksburg campaign in March 1863.
SOURCE: Seth James Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells, Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p. 48
